The World At Their Fingertips Eighteenthcentury British Twosheet Doublehemisphere World Maps
Publisher: British Library
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780712358774
Description: Between 1680 and 1807 several British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps, each printed on two conjoined sheets. The British Library holds the most comprehensive collection of these important maps, and this is the first time that this type of map has been studied as a genre, partly because of their great rarity.